As part of the Innovations in Education series, we visited Oakland Charter Academy and met with principal David Camarena, Evelia Villa of Amethod Public Schools, and Susanna Loeb of Stanford University about the achievement gap.
The Walton Family Foundation’s involvement in efforts to improve K-12 education spans nearly three decades. We look to brave leaders including the individuals featured in this series to find solutions that improve education for all students. Through Innovations in Education, a video series with Carrie Walton Penner that explores first-hand groundbreaking work taking place across the country, we will introduce you to some of these leaders.
I am a lifetime educator: I had turned schools around in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore; I had been on the founding team at schools designed to educate underserved students; I had overseen academics for school networks. But I wasn’t prepared to help my own daughter.
